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Anthony Fauci, le “Monsieur Covid” de Washington, annonce sa retraite
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#Anthony_Fauci Should Have Resigned a Long Time Ago
▻https://jacobin.com/2022/09/anthony-fauci-covid-19-pandemic-public-health-science-niaid

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The fact is that throughout the pandemic, Fauci repeatedly gave the public faulty or misleading information. Most famously, he told 60 Minutes in March 2020 that “right now in the United States, people should not be walking around wearing masks.” Granted, that was during a period of deep scientific uncertainty about the virus, where a lot of authorities got a lot of things wrong.

Maybe more damaging was Fauci’s later admission that this wrong advice was motivated by the need “to save the masks for the people who really needed them, because it was felt there was a shortage of masks” — in other words, he had intentionally given the public false information for what he saw as the greater good. This later statement was doubly inexplicable given that emails later unearthed showed Fauci privately giving the same advice to a former health and human services secretary around the same time. But whatever the truth, the damage was done.

This was far from the only such instance. In another notorious episode, Fauci admitted to the New York Times he was setting and revising the threshold of vaccination needed for herd immunity not based on science, but on his own calculation of the American public’s appetite to get shots:

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How Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor | The New Yorker
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Ah le plaisir de lire des bio-hagiographies ;-)

Anthony Fauci certainly did not. At seventy-nine, Fauci has run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for thirty-six years, through six Administrations and a long procession of viral epidemics: H.I.V., SARS, avian influenza, swine flu, Zika, and Ebola among them. As a member of the Administration’s coronavirus task force, Fauci seemed to believe that the government’s actions could be directed, even if the President’s pronouncements could not. At White House briefings, it has regularly fallen to Fauci to gently amend Trump’s absurdities, half-truths, and outright lies. No, there is no evidence that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine will provide a “miracle” treatment to stave off the infection. No, there won’t be a vaccine for at least a year. When the President insisted for many weeks on denying the government’s inability to deliver test kits for the virus, Fauci, testifying before Congress, put the matter bluntly. “That’s a failing,” he said. “Let’s admit it.”

When Trump was not dismissing the severity of the crisis, he was blaming others for it: the Chinese, the Europeans, and, as always, Barack Obama. He blamed governors who were desperate for federal help and had been reduced to fighting one another for lifesaving ventilators. In one briefing, Governor Andrew Cuomo, of New York, said, “It’s like being on eBay with fifty other states, bidding on a ventilator.” Trump even accused hospital workers in New York City of pilfering surgical masks and other vital protective equipment that they needed to stay alive. “Are they going out the back door?” Trump wondered aloud.

As a reporter who writes mainly on science and public-health issues, I’ve known Fauci since the H.I.V./AIDS epidemic exploded, in the mid-eighties. He once explained to me that he has developed a method for dealing with political leaders in times of crisis: “I go to my favorite book of philosophy, ‘The Godfather,’ and say, ‘It’s nothing personal, it’s strictly business.’ ” He continued, “You just have a job to do. Even when somebody’s acting ridiculous, you can’t chide them for it. You’ve got to deal with them. Because if you don’t deal with them, then you’re out of the picture.”

Since his days of advising Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Fauci has maintained a simple credo: “You stay completely apolitical and non-ideological, and you stick to what it is that you do. I’m a scientist and I’m a physician. And that’s it.” He learned the value of candor early. “Some wise person who used to be in the White House, in the Nixon Administration, told me a very interesting dictum to live by,” he told me in 2016, during a public conversation we had at the fifty-year reunion of his medical-school class. “He said, ‘When you go into the White House, you should be prepared that that is the last time you will ever go in. Because if you go in saying, I’m going to tell somebody something they want to hear, then you’ve shot yourself in the foot.’ Now everybody knows I’m going to tell them exactly what’s the truth.”

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